GOP front-runner Donald Trump pulled a coup when he received the endorsement of Sarah Palin. But just as Palin was making that big splash, her son was having trouble with the police back in Alaska. Palin seemed to blame PTSD for her veteran son’s troubles, but her blame is not sitting well with veterans.

When Trump brought Sarah Palin to Iowa to make the big announcement of the former Alaska governor’s endorsement, her announcement was darkened a bit by news coming out the same day that her 26-year-old combat veteran son, Track, had been arrested back in Wasilla, Alaska.

Palin insisted her son’s troubles were a result of Obama’s policies, but she also hinted Track might be suffering from Post Traumatic Distress Disorder (PTSD).

“I can talk personally about this, I guess it’s kind of the elephant in the room,” Palin said about her son’s troubles in Oklahoma. “My son, like so many others–they come back a bit different, they come back hardened, they come back wondering if there is that respect for what it is that their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military so sacrificially have given to this country.”

But it wasn’t long before some veterans publicly criticized Palin for blaming her son’s troubles on PTSD.

As Foreign Policy reports, veteran Brandon Friedman, head of the public affairs firm The McPherson Square Group and former digital media director for the Department of Veterans Affairs, slammed Palin for the conceit.

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“Here we have Sarah Palin yakking about PTSD, and she’s talking about it in a context that is extraordinarily harmful,” Friedman said. “She’s basically saying, ‘Of course my son beats his girlfriend, because he has PTSD like all the veterans.'”

Foreign Policy also revealed a long list of tweets by veterans who were critical of Palin’s claims.

The UK’s Daily Mail also found several veterans angry at Palin’s claims.

A veteran and Twitter user going by the name of ‘DKey’ wrote: “As a combat vet, EXTREMELY disgusted by #SarahPalin blaming PTSD 4 domestic abuse.”